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In Real Freedom for All: What (if anything) can justify capitalism? (1995) he argues for both the justice and feasibility of a basic income for every citizen. It promotes the achievement of a real freedom to make choices. For example, Van Parijs purports that one cannot really choose to stay at home to raise children or start a business if one cannot afford to. As proposed by Van Parijs, such freedom should be feasible through taxing the scarce, valued social good of jobs, as a form of income redistribution.
Another part of Van Parijs' work is about the economy of linguistic communication. In order to compensate countries with a small language for their expenses on teaching and translation he has proposed a language tax, which would be paid by countries with a widespread language, for their savings on the domains mentioned.
Van Parijs's work is sometimes associated with the September Group of analytic Marxism, though he is not himself a committed Marxist.
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